Private Army.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Jonathan Cape (1950). 8vo. Orig. gilt-dec. cloth. In price-clipped and slightly soiled dustjacket. (512pp.). With portrait 9 full-page plates and 4 fold. col. maps. 1st ed. Previous owner's signature on front fly-leaf and page edges foxed. A very good copy. NOTE: In late 1942 the author formed Popski's Private Army - the smallest independent British unit which operated behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War.